MLB / Players

Steve Bowling

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right
Listed at6 ft 0 in · 185 lb
BornJune 26, 1952 · Tulsa, OK, USA
MLB debutSeptember 7, 1976
Final gameOctober 2, 1977
Seasons2 (1976–1977)

Milwaukee Brewers 1976; Toronto Blue Jays 1977

Percentile snapshot

No qualified season. This player never reached the qualification floor — 3.1 plate appearances, or one inning, per game his team played — in any archived season, so there is no season population to rank him inside.

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR
-0.5
13.3

sWAR measured against every career in history, 24,011 of them. Only era-adjusted career stats carry a percentile — a raw career total gets a rank instead, because pooling the 1890s with the 2020s is a choice, not a measurement.

Season by season

Batting

SeasonGPAABRH2B3BHRRBIBBSOSBCSBAOBPSLGOPSwRC+OPS+wOBAsWAR
19761444424720022500.167.205.214.41917.023.8.202-0.3
197789236194194081113374223.206.330.273.60472.665.8.293-0.3

Career totals

G
103
PA
280
AB
236
R
23
H
47
2B
10
3B
1
HR
1
RBI
15
BB
39
SO
47
SB
2
BA
.1992
OBP
.3105
SLG
.2627
OPS
.5732

A total is called out only where it ranks in the all-time top 500; hover a figure for its rank and the size of the field it was ranked in. Ranks are absolute facts and carry no percentile — the population for "career home runs" would be an editorial choice, and the rank is not.

Best games

Batting

DateGameABRH2B3BHRRBIBBTB
1976-09-07CLE @ MIL Gameday313100104
1977-08-26ATH @ TOR Gameday411001104
1977-08-23TOR @ ATH Gameday513000103
1977-09-02SEA @ TOR Gameday212100213
1977-08-17TOR @ TEX Gameday202100103

Ranked from our own play-by-play game log, which begins in 1901 — not from the record book, so a career played outside it shows nothing here rather than a short list.